“If you are afraid to write or edit or assemble or disassemble, you are merely a spectator. And you are trapped, trapped by the instructions of those you've chosen to follow. Twenty people in the field and eighty thousand in the stands. The spectators are the ones who paid to watch, but it's the player on the field who are truly alive.” PeopleIfsWritingMotivationalWatchesAlivePlayerFieldsThousandPaidTwentiesChosenInstructionTrappedSpectatorsEightyEdits Author:Seth Godin
“In the early years of the Roaring Twenties, American women not only won the right to vote but they also earned headlines along side their male counterparts during the Golden Age of American sports. Michael Bohn shares an engaging story of how two sports heroines, tennis player Helen Wills and swimmer Gertrude Ederle, helped embolden women to seek self-fulfillment by challenging the status quo.” YearsTwoSelfStoriesAgeSportsSidesChallengesPlayerShareVoteTwentiesMalesGoldenFulfillmentTennisStatus QuoEngagingHeadlinesHeroinesRight To VoteGolden AgeRoaringCounterpartsAmerican WomanSwimmerHelenTennis PlayerGertrudeChallenging The Status QuoSelf FulfillmentRoaring Twenties Author:Donna de Varona
“It seems the baseball player of today will not be satisfied until he plays two weeks in the big league and is able to retire at twenty-two.” TwoPlayBigsSeemsTodayAblePlayerWeekBaseballTwentiesSatisfiedLeagueRetiringTwo WeeksBaseball PlayerTwenty Two Author:Joe Garagiola
“For inspiration I look to those great players who consistently found original ways to shock their opponents. None did this better than the eighth world champion, Mikhail Tal. The "Magician of Riga" rose to become champion in 1960 at age twenty-three and became famous for his aggressive, volatile play.” WorldWayLooksPlayInspirationAgeThreeFoundPlayerTwentiesOriginalsRoseChampionOpponentsShockAggressiveConsistentlyMagician1960sWorld Champions Author:Garry Kasparov
“We have a word game in English called "Twenty questions." To play Twenty Questions, one player imagines some object, and the other players must guess what it is by asking questions that can be answered with a "yes" or a "no." I imagine every language has a similar game, and, for those of us who speak the language of science, the game is called The Scientific Method.” PlayGamesSpeakLanguageImaginePlayerObjectsTwentiesAskingMethodAsking QuestionsScientific Method Author:Karl Barry Sharpless
“The clock struck half past two. In the little office at the back of Mr. McKechnie's bookshop, Gordon--Gordon Comstock, last member of the Comstock family, aged twenty-nine and rather moth-eaten already--lounged across the table, pushing a fourpenny packet of Player's Weights open and shut with his thumb.” LittlesTwoBookLastsPastHalfPlayerMembersOfficeWeightTwentiesTablesNineClockPushingThumbsMothsBookshops Book:The complete works of George Orwell Source: The complete works of George Orwell
“People know more about baseball players contracts than they do about the policies that govern the fate of our childrens lives in twenty years. Think about it. People used to say, the whole time I was growing up, Do you want to bring a child into this world? Thats pretty dire.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWorldWantYearsChildrenWholeUsedGrowing UpFateGrowingPlayerPolicyThis WorldBaseballTwentiesOur ChildrenContractsBaseball Player Author:Jackson Browne
“When you look back you talk about legends of the game, he's certainly up there. Twenty trophies since 1994. He just seems to get better and better. I've had the honour of playing alongside him. The four years I've played alongside him, he is the best player, one of the first names on the manager's teamsheet. He is just a complete legend. There are not enough players like Paul Scholes around any more for my liking. 'Legend' is over-used but this guy is right up there with the very best.” YearsFirstsLooksEnoughSeemsUsedGuyGamesNamesFourPlayerTwentiesManagersGet BetterHonourLegendsFour YearsThis GuyTrophiesBest PlayersScholesPaul Scholes Author:Dwight Yorke
“Alekhine developed as a player much more slowly than most. In his twenties, he was an atrocious chessplayer, and didn't mature until he was well into his thirties.” WellsPlayerTwentiesMatureAlekhine Author:Bobby Fischer
“When you are 18, 19 or 20 you can get away with more, but as you get into your twenties you realise that it is harder and harder to lose what you put on. Look at Ricky Hatton. That isn't good for you and so you know not to come back overweight or out of shape. Why? Because you'll get stick from fellow players and you'll struggle.” KnowsLooksLosesStrugglePlayerShapesHarderTwentiesFellowsSticksGet AwayRealisingOverweightRicky Hatton Author:Colin Kazim-Richards
“You can describe my round as having moments of ecstasy and stark raving terror. I looked like I knew what I was doing at times and at other times I looked like a twenty handicap player.” MomentsPlayerTwentiesRoundsTerrorEcstasyStarksHandicaps Author:Arnold Palmer
“No great player blundered oftener than I done. I was champion of the world for twenty-eight years because I was twenty years ahead of my time. I played on certain principles, which neither Zukertort nor anyone else of his time understood. The players of today, such as Lasker, Tarrasch, Pillsbury, Schlechter and others have adopted my principles, and as is only natural, they have improved upon what I began, and that is the whole secret of the matter.” WorldYearsMatterDoneWholeTodayCertainNaturalSecretPrinciplesPlayerUnderstoodTwentiesEightChampionMy TimeAdopted Author:Wilhelm Steinitz
“If I had an argument with a player we would sit down for twenty minutes, talk about it and then decide I was right!” IfsPlayerMinutesArgumentTwenties Author:Brian Clough
“I never wanted all this hoopla. All I wanted was to be a good ball player and hit twenty-five or thirty homers, drive in a hundred runs, hit .280 and help my club win pennants. I just wanted to be one of the guys, an average player having a good season.” HelpingRunningWantedGuyWinningFivePlayerHundredSeasonsBallsTwentiesAverageClubsThirtyTwenty FiveBall Players Author:Roger Maris